Criterion Channel

Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by @Criterion.

[Sophy Romvari @SophyRomvari]

To celebrate the @criterionchannl release of Blue Heron, I wanted to share a few other films I referenced in my visual guidebook leading up to production.

MEDIUM COOL (1969)
L'AVVENTURA (1960)
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999)
THE BED YOU SLEEP IN (1993)

[Robert Daniels @812filmreviews]

I remember seeing BLUE HERON at Locarno 2025 and thinking: That might be the best I'll see this year. It's still the best movie of this year and last.

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

💙 Tonight's the night: BLUE HERON, the transcendent feature debut from @SophyRomvari, begins streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel starting at 8pm ET. 💙 https://t.co/GdGviFr5VV

In Romvari’s award-winning debut feature a Hungarian Canadian family of six moves into a new home on Vancouver Island, where Sasha, the youngest child, watches her older brother’s increasingly erratic behavior through the haze of an idyllic summer.

[Sophy Romvari @SophyRomvari]

Blue Heron will be available on the wonderful @criterionchannl in the US starting this evening 💙

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✨Announcing the Criterion Channel’s August 2026 Lineup!✨ https://t.co/2zyzH23VqR

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Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch SOME CAME RUNNING (1958) in our Murderous Meloramas collection! ❤️‍🔥 https://t.co/vfi498YejU

Master stylist Vincente Minnelli applies his spectacular visual flair to this feverish film, a scorching indictment of small-town hypocrisy that sets every inch of the CinemaScope frame ablaze in expressionist color.

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Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch JAMÓN JAMÓN (1992) in our Directed by Bigas Luna collection! ❣️ https://t.co/Jb9HKAUxMj

The pleasures of sex and food entwine to outrageous effect in this wickedly seductive, darkly surreal romance starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

[Criterion Channel @criterionchannl]

Watch some of Camila's great Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel! ✨

THE GREAT BEAUTY
TÓTEM

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✨ Camila Mendes’s Closet Picks! ✨

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❤️🍍 It’s Wong Kar Wai’s birthday! 🍍❤️ What better way to spend the day than indulging in his world of films! On the Criterion Channel, watch our collection of the great cinema master’s work—featuring everything from CHUNGKING EXPRESS and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE to all 30 episodes of his ravishing television show BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI. https://t.co/t6tRVDtRIQ

[Janus Films @janusfilms]

New trailer for the 4K restoration of maverick animator René Laloux's GANDAHAR.

Presented uncut, with the original score and dialogue! Exclusively in theaters August 28.

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, start watching THE PRISONER—the 1960s British cult sensation that pushed television into new realms of unsettling, Kafkaesque mystery! https://t.co/ahFquDPO2y

Series creator Patrick McGoohan stars as a nameless spy who, after he abruptly resigns from his highly classified job, is kidnapped and held in a strange, deceptively idyllic town known only as the Village, where his quest for freedom collides with the sinister machinations of a mysterious authoritarian sect determined to keep him under their control.

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Ulu Grosbard's STRAIGHT TIME (1978). Now playing in our Starring Harry Dean Stanton collection! https://t.co/ixPuhZicQS

[Mike David @mikemovies]

Below is a small list pulled from the Films Fatale Top 100 1930s films. I cross-checked the list of one hundred films to see which are currently streaming on @criterionchannl, and there are twenty one. The list is below!

If you don't have the Criterion Channel, it's still a killer list to reference. Also, subscribe to the Criterion Channel. It is my most used streaming service by FAR and it's half the price of other major streamers.

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PYGMALION
OSAKA ELEGY
THE FOUR FEATHERS
WESTFRONT 1918
THE BLOOD OF A POET
PEOPLE ON SUNDAY
THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE
I WAS BORN, BUT...
HUMANITY AND PAPER BALLOONS
ZÉRO DE CONDUITE
PÉPÉ LE MOKO
MARIUS / FANNY / CÉSAR (trilogy)
KAMERADSCHAFT
THE ONLY SON
THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
BOUDO SAVED FROM DROWNING
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
LIMITE
ALEXANDER NEVSKY
L'ATALANTE

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Corneliu Porumboiu's THE SECOND GAME https://t.co/PMCsd4Y5L2

Cinema doesn’t get much more minimalist than this unique experimental doc, which consists of a videotape of a 1988 Bucharest soccer game accompanied by commentary by the director & his father, who refereed the match.

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Khyentse Norb's THE CUP https://t.co/fXQohoTyaZ

Soccer fever seizes the most unlikely of places in this warm tale—the 1st feature film made in Bhutan. A quest to procure a satellite dish sets up a reflection on the collision of spiritual practice & the reality of globalization.

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Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Martin Ritt's THE LONG HOT SUMMER (1958) in our Murderous Melodramas collection! https://t.co/vfi498YejU

Sex, pyromania, and epic family drama heat up this southern-gothic scorcher adapted from three works by William Faulkner.

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

Patrick McGoohan's #ThePrisoner, one of the greatest series ever made, is now on @criterionchannl.

See more streaming picks of the week: https://t.co/QHOBSMTaqW

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PAULINE AT THE BEACH (1983) • Now playing in our Directed by Eric Rohmer collection on the Channel!

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Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD (1986) ❤️

Now playing on the Criterion Channel!